Infrastructure Of Department Of Orthopaedics

The department consists of :

1. OPD complex
2. Indoor Department of Orthopaedics
3. Male Orthopaedic Ward
4. Female Orthopaedic Ward
5. Main OT complex including state of the art modular OT
6. Emergency ward & Casualty OT

The infrastructure has been designed as per norms specified by Medical Council of India:

OPD

• Reception area with registration counter
• Patients’ waiting area
• Two main General OPDs with four cubicles for patient examination functioning from 8:00am to 4:00pm
• One specialty OPD- conducting 3 OPDs per week from 11:00am to 1:00 pm
• One Plaster room and plaster cutting room-equipped with plaster equipment for application and removal and a Watson-Jone’s fracture casting table with round the clock water supply
• One minor OT with provision for autoclaving, change area, wash area and dressing storage
• One dressing room

Speciality OPD :

SPECIALTY CLINICS (Time: 11:00 to 1:00pm)
Day	Name of Specialty Clinic
Tuesday	Arthritis Clinic
Wednesday	Spine Clinic
Thursday	Congenital and Developmental Diseases Clinic

The concept of specialty OPD is to select cases of clinical and research interest and to create a data base by prospective and retrospective follow up. The specialty clinics are not unit specific and the idea is to facilitate a faculty member to interact in more than one field of interest for research and publications. We intend to collaborate with other Institutions to make our department a support centre to study the common regional Orthopaedic problems and to create a registry for our part of the State. The documentation is under process and we have adopted Hospital data system for documentation. Digitalization, update related to clinical material is already in practice.

Indoor Department of Orthopaedics :

The indoor department of Orthopaedics is the administrative and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching block and is well connected and coordinated with Department of Radiology and Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation.

• Teaching room -Has capacity to accommodate 50 individuals. Has LCD and overhead projector, black-boards, bone sets and a collection of teaching X-rays along with orthotics and supports, implants and instrument sets for teaching.

• Departmental Library -The library is large with seating facilities and an exhaustive collection of book titles with latest editions of text-books and specialty Orthopaedics titles and reputed Journals of both Indian and Foreign titles, many of them from 1985 till date with complete sets of prominent journals of last three years. Facilities of conventional teaching blackboard teaching and modern computer based multimedia teaching like overhead projection and LCD projection are available in the library separately from the teaching room.

• Internet access - Facilities for internet access through web based data card and annual subscription of “Orthopaedic Knowledge Online” with free access to indexed journals and e- journals are available in the computer and record cubicle adjacent to the library. The computer is being used for research documentation. This facility is over and above the central station of computer and internet terminals available in the College administrative block.

• Computer and record room - For clinical and academic documentation and projected forthcoming thesis work after approval of the postgraduate course in the department by MCI.

• Museum – The museum has teaching bone models and specimens, the volume of which is being builtup. An archive of X-ray collection of patients treated in our wards is being maintained for research and shall form a rich data base. The X-Rays are in the constant process of being cataloged and digitalised.
The admissions consists of a wide variety of Orthopaedics patients including trauma, congenital and developmental Orthopaedic disorders, spinal diseases, paralytic diseases, joint diseases and cases of clinical interest for teaching and demonstration.